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Conference Abstracts Society for Seventeenth-Century Music Thirteenth Annual Meeting Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois 14­17 April 2005 ABSTRACTS Index of presentations Candace Bailey (North Carolina Central University), “English ‘Baroque’ Style and the Politics of Change” Marie-Louise Catsalis (North Carolina Central University), “In the Calm Evening Air: Music and Text of the Solo Serenata” Esther Criscuola de Laix (University of California at Berkeley), “Culture and Ceremony in the Wedding Motets of Jacob Praetorius” Stefan Eckert (Northwestern University), “Musicalische Vorstellung einiger Biblischer Historien (1700) - Johann Kuhnau’s Conception of Affect as Form and Expression” Patricia Firca (The University of Chicago), “Felice Ottavia: Taming the Vindictive Queen of L’incoronazione di Poppea” Catherine Gordon-Seifert (Providence University), “Rhetoric and Expression in the Mid Seventeenth-Century French Air” Robert A. Green (Indiana University), “Reflections of Changing Public Tastes: Lambert’s Revisions to His 1689 Airs” Douglas L. Ipson (The University of Chicago), “Opera on Canvas: The Paintings of Il Padovanino and Venetian Opera of the 1640s” Naomi Matsumoto (Goldsmiths’ College, University of London), “Monteverdi and the Madness of Iro: Asylum Seeking and a Return to Homeland?” Tim O’Brien (University of Minnesota), “’When Conquering Beauty Fills that Heavenly Sphear’: A Reappraisal of Allegory in Purcell’s The Fairy Queen” Mary Paquette-Abt (Wayne State University), “Subtexts: The Dedication as Source in Early Seventeenth-Century Roman Music Prints” Colleen Reardon (Binghamton University), “Scrambled Eggs and Hams: Theatrical Music in Siena at the End of the Seventeenth Century” Andrew Schultze (Ars Musica Chicago), “Il pianto di Rodomonte: Creating a Performance of Abbatini’s cantata drammatica” Hendrik Schulze (Institut für Musikwissenschaft, Salzburg), “Giovanni Faustini’s & Francesco Cavalli’s La virtu de’ strali d’Amore (1642) as a Contribution to Contemporary Operatic Debate” Christian Speck (Universität Koblenz-Landau), “'Fu cantato un poemetto graziosissimo': New Light on the Rise of the oratorio volgare in Rome” Beverly Stein (California State University), “The Triumph of Jephte’s Daughter: Religious Symbolism, Gender and Role Exchange in Carissimi’s Jephthe” Beth Szczepanski (Ohio State University), “Il Nerone Impasticciato: The Lover and the Tyrant in the Characterization of Nero in Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea” Stefanie Tcharos (University of California at Santa Barbara), “Revisiting Arcadia: The Ideology of Nostalgia and the Problem of Musical Drama” Andrew H. Weaver (Northwestern University), “The Emperor’s Voice: Style, Structure and Meaning in a Motet from the Habsburg Court of Ferdinand III (1637- 57)” Sarah F. Williams (Northwestern University), “'What devil’s Pater noster mumbles she?’: The Sounds & Music of Witchcraft in Early-Modern English Broadside Balladry” Jessica Wiskus (Duquesne University), “Chromatic Dialectic: A Phenomenological Approach to Louis Couperin” ROME AND ITS MUSIC Subtexts: The Dedication as Source in Early Seventeenth­Century Roman Music Prints Mary Paquette­Abt (Wayne State University) Inscriptions in seventeenth­century music prints are usually noted for their addressees, but scholarly perceptions of them as puff pieces constrained by rhetorical convention has sometimes diverted attention from the contemporary cultural commentary they contain. New ways of reading such texts, albeit ones with different purposes, have been approached in the work of Tim Carter, Susan Lewis and others, with valuable contributions from Raimund Redeker for a slightly earlier repertory. These readings shift attention to the writer—usually the composer—and the insights that critical reading can offer about contemporary music and context. I believe such texts in early seventeenth century Rome offer special insights into the music profession, seen through its practitioners, particularly figures less well­known to us, who were active professionally and published in large numbers, and formed the backbone of Roman musical life in the era. The particular evidence I use is from the dedications to the series of anthologies of sacred and secular vocal music compiled by Fabio Costantini from the 1610s through the 1630s, the only such series with Roman composers and repertory published during that time. His dedications are as varied in tone and content as are the character and personalities of his dedicatees, but consistent throughout is the voice of the author, which grows bolder with the passage of years, particularly concerning changes in the music profession. If we look past Costantini’s more conventional uses of dedicatory language, he becomes an increasing presence in his texts, reflecting on his own endeavors as composer, compiler, performer, and director. When viewed in the larger context of Costantini’s biography, the specific meanings of his texts emerge. Because his career is typical in many ways of the Roman musician in this era, his words can be read as contemporary commentary on Roman musical culture. Yet this commentary comes from a quarter different than that of often­quoted contemporary cultural critics, among them the aristocratic amateurs Vincenzo Giustianiani or Pietro Della Valle, whose opinions have influenced our understanding of the era. This reading of evidence from the profession also indicates the potential of pursuing this avenue of research within a systematic study of music printing in early seventeenth­century Rome. Return to top 'Fu cantato un poemetto graziosissimo': New Light on the Rise of the Oratorio volgare in Rome Christian Speck (Universität Koblenz­Landau, Germany) It is a widespread opinion that the oratorio, coming from Roman antecedents, had fully developed by the mid­seventeenth century and that the rise of the oratorio volgare is primarily connected with the practice of oratorio­music at the oratory of the church Santa Maria in Vallicella at Rome. But an examination of sources from about 1625­1630, such as oratorio­librettos by Giovanni Ciampoli, Ottavio Tronsarelli and Giulio Rospigliosi, or oratorio music by Kapsberger, sheds new light to the dark early history of the genre. Their conception of the oratorio was rather different from that of Anerio's "Teatro," as well as from the mid­century type at the Vallicella. Oratorios were written for festivities at Roman palaces from about 1625 on, and they seem to have had an important influence on the oratorio music at Roman churches and oratories. The new thesis will be presented that the emergence of the oratorio volgare in Rome is essentially to be seen in the context of the artistic­religious program of the early reign of Pope Urban VIII. (1623­44). There is evidence that Urban saw in the oratorio a new instrument of combining sacred poetic art and self­representation, as he was to some years later, from 1631 on, in the Rospigliosi operas promoted by the Barberini. Return to top The Triumph of Jephte’s Daughter: Religious Symbolism, Gender and Role Exchange in Carissimi’s Jephthe Beverly Stein (California State University) Jepthe’s daughter has no name and occupies only six verses in the book of Judges. But in his Jephte, Counter­Reformation composer and Jesuit master of persuasion Giacomo Carissimi transforms the unnamed young woman into the oratorio’s hero, surpassing in importance even her father, the military hero who rescued Israel from destruction. While musicologists have tended to focus on the literal meaning of the story (the human tragedy of the vow) and its musical and rhetorical expression, the deeper religious symbolism of the oratorio has gone completely unnoticed. This paper will explore how and why Carissimi accorded such distinction to this particular female character. The famous mutatio toni at the midpoint marks not only a change of affect but, more importantly, the point at which the daughter begins to usurp the dramatic and symbolic role of her father, represented through explicit musical shifts from father to daughter at three levels of scale. The small­scale textual shift in Jephte’s "Heu mihi" lament resonates musically through tonal descent, when Jephte refers to himself, and ascent when he refers to his daughter. The role reversal becomes even clearer after Filia offers herself in sacrifice, and Jephte simply parrots back his daughter’s previous statement. The father’s character then disappears, while his daughter wrings every heart with her moving lament. The daughter of Jephte is no ordinary woman: she is, according to Augustine contemporary Quodvultdeus and others, a prefiguration of Christ, and it is for this reason that Carissimi raises her up as the oratorio’s hero. She has been seen by writers such as Isidore of Pelusium as manly and strong, after the manner of virgins whose pure state endowed them with the physical and moral strength of men. Carissimi suggests such a view when Jephte falls into lament, a feminine utterance, while his daughter takes over his role as leader, making decisions and commanding nature to obey her as her father formerly commanded his troops; they not only switch roles, but genders. The apotheosis of her character over his may echo the shifting emphasis of the Counter­Reformation from militancy to triumph of the Church. Return to top In the Calm Evening Air: Music and Text of the Solo Serenata Marie­Louise Catsalis (North Carolina Central University) In the eyes of modern scholars, the well­known genre of the solo cantata has tended to overshadow,
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